Astronomy
Sep 29, 2020
Video shows a meteoroid skipping off Earth's atmosphere
Here's something we don't see very often: an Earth-grazing meteoroid.
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Space Exploration
Aug 13, 2020
Video: ESA's meteor camera captures the Perseid showers
The Perseids meteor shower is one of the most spectacular annual meteor showers. Made of debris from comet Swift-Tuttle they have been observed by sky-watchers for thousands of years and this year the LIC1 camera of the Canary ...
Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2020
4-billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Martian meteorites
A research team including research scientist Atsuko Kobayashi from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and research scientist Mizuho Koike from the Institute of Space and Astronautical ...
Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2020
Lyrids meteor shower reaches its peak
April 21 and 22 is the peak of a shower of meteors—or shooting stars—known as the Lyrids.
Astronomy
Mar 2, 2020
Riding the wave of a supernova to go interstellar
When it comes to the challenges posed by interstellar travel, there are no easy answers. The distances are immense, the amount of energy needed to make the journey is tremendous, and the time scales involved are (no pun!) ...
Astronomy
Feb 19, 2020
There could be meteors traveling at close to the speed of light when they hit the atmosphere
It's no secret that planet Earth is occasionally greeted by rocks from space that either explode in the atmosphere or impact on the surface. In addition, Earth regularly experiences meteor showers whenever it passes through ...
Astronomy
Feb 11, 2020
Study reveals details of 'golf ball asteroid'
Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes, and now astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have observed an asteroid so heavily cratered that they are dubbing it the "golf ball asteroid."
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2019
Capturing shooting stars over Hawaiʻi
Astronomers now have a new pair of eyes to detect meteors over Hawaiʻi using a state-of-the-art monitoring system installed on the rooftops of existing buildings on Maunakea and Haleakalā. The high-speed video devices are ...
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2019
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on the NASA Parker Solar Probe revealed an asteroid dust trail that has eluded astronomers for decades.
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2019
Revealing the physics of the Sun with Parker Solar Probe
Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere. Following the release of the very first science from the mission, five researchers presented additional ...
